Sudan “in contact” with Juba to break oil, security deadlock

November 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan and South Sudan are in contact with each other to resume production of the latter’s oil after it has been put on hold due to a stalemate in border security talks between the two countries, both sides confirmed on Wednesday.

The official spokesperson of Sudan’s ministry of foreign affairs, Al-Obaid Adama Marawih, said that the contacts are being held at top levels and may soon yield an agreement on how to overcome the obstacles facing the implementation of the agreements the two countries signed on 27 September.

The nine agreements signed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa covered a host of issues resulting from the secession of South Sudan from Sudan in July last year, including resumption of South Sudan oil exports via Sudan after the former shutdown its oil output in January after a row with Khartoum on transit fees. Also included is a deal on border security and establishment of a 10-km buffer demilitarized zone along the 1800-km common borders between the two countries.

Talks between the two countries on how to implement the security deal, which Khartoum considers to be its top priority, collapsed last week after Sudan insisted that South Sudan sever its alleged connections to the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N), which has been fighting the Sudanese government in the country’s border regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile since last year.

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit said this week that his country has decided to delay preparations to resume oil production after Sudan included new demands in the security talks, accusing Khartoum of trying to use his country as an excuse for its defeats in South Kordofan, where the rebels recently escalated their military activities.

Marawih told the Sudanese daily newspaper Al-Sahafa that Sudan approached the South Sudanese embassy in Khartoum on Tuesday and had contact with many senior officials in Juba including President Salva Kiir Mayardit about reactivating the agreements.

Marawih stressed that so far Sudan did not tell South Sudan that it will not allow resumption of oil exports. “So far we did not tell them that we will prevent resumption of oil flow, but we told them that any security breakdown along the border after resumption of oil exports will hurt the entire operation. It is better that we resolve differences in the security dossier first”.

The Sudanese diplomat said that his country wants to establish a buffer demilitarized zone as stipulated under the agreement. He added that African Union mediators who brokered the deal are trying to persuade South Sudan to implement it.

South Sudan’s chief negotiator, Pagan Amum, also confirmed that they are in contact with Khartoum officials to resume oil operations. He, however, accused the Sudanese government of preventing South Sudanese oil from reaching international markets.

Amum pointed out that they made the decision to halt preparations to resume oil production on basis of media reports about statements of Sudanese officials who accused South Sudan of continuing to support SPLM-N which fought as part of its army during the north-south civil war in the former united Sudan.

In a related development, the Sudanese ministry of oil announced that it will not allow South Sudan’s oil to be exported via Sudanese ports unless security arrangements are sorted out first. The state minister for oil, Faisal Hamad Abdulla, said on Wednesday that settling the security issue will serve as a guarantee for implementing other economic agreements.

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22 November 2012 08:00, by Jalaby

Just a phone call from Obama to liar Kiir will make Kiir thugs government abide to security agreement and kick out SPLA-N asses out of the south! Just a phone call!

Will there ever be binding agreement with Khartoum given their culture of telling lies and deceiving others including their own mothers? Kiir should watch out!!
To lie is culturally normal in the blood of Khartoumers!!!

Mi diit,What are you saying man? Obama has Kiir’s letter where Mr. Kiir apologized to him of being a liar when he denied his supportive to SPLA-N! That’s solid evidence classifies Mr. Kiir as a liar, therefore classifies you guys as liar nation since your president is a big liar! Shame on him!

Mitoot, it is a blessing right now if you nyagateen come to your sense and understand that Bashir fool you to belief his liers to you, Bashir fooled non other than nyagat Riek machar to committed a crimes and run to Khartoum and later realisted that he made a mistake , and apologies for it, death to him,

Mr.Dinka Dominated Spla!
Don’t you have no shame to yourself man,it’s so bored of you to keep commenting repeatedly about one particular tribe just because of Dr.Riek Machar’s mistake for the rebellion he took against Dr.Garang back in 91,we’re all human and you know this bro.just leave Nuer people alone.

How about coup da ta at in Khartoum, how is it going, and how many generals and civilaince have you killed already since you killed those who disobey your criminal childless gay persident ? See when you have a shame about your torerrorist country, you don’t when to comment on it, ahahahaha it show your weakness

Dinka Dominated Foolishness,
Why are you stabbing me at the back while I am trying to argue with that Jalaby. Are you defending him indirectly by diverting the argument. You are a foolish son of my grandfather’s slave. You act like Abel Alier, Moses Machar and George Kongor who served as Khartoum’s agents for life.

Jalaby
No one will consider whatever said by you always like to comment on the issues regarding South Sudanese affairs where were you during the Israeli Air strike over Sudan arms factory coward you giving chance by those stupids groups as this so called Dinka Dominated SPLA/M (Mangoor) you are taking advantage as trying to stir up the hatred among our community so we make no room for TERRORISTS

Jalaby,
Good question. Because Dr. Riek Machar only fooled you in order to divide Sudan into two like has now happened. But because you were outwitted, you thought he was to be with you forever, and forgot what he went for. ahahahahahaaa........He got the independence from you. Are you happy now with the outcome????

Mi diit,Although your justification is so poor but I would believe you if Nivasha was signed between Machar and Khartoum government but it was signed with Garang therefore all the credits will go for Garang, regarding Machar, as Garang said about him and his group:

they will be known in history as people who stabbed the Movement in Southern Sudan in the back. They will be known as people who at the point of victory when we were going to win in Juba, they stabbed us in the back"Absolutely, we do remember and know them! LOOOOOOOL

Jalaby,
I know you understanding is so low if you can only believe in somebody signing with an ink and not the power behind that ink. If you follow the history of Naivasha peace agreement you would understand that Machar was an invisible power behind that decision to end the war on self determination. He used Garang to do that. Interesting!

I advise you to do your research very cautiously without emotions of rejection and denial. You will come to terms and realise that Dr. Machar was behind that move. Think about it if you can. But Machar loves to remain an invisible hand and that limits his recognition in such events.

Also you sound naive to only believe in Garang’s statement against Machar. Garang can say whatever he wanted to say bad about Machar because they were political rivals and that doesn’t mean any thing to Machar today. Don’t you know that? You sound naive indeed.

Mi diit,You know the fact that all weapons that Machar was using against Garang was Khartoum weapons (don’t be a liar like other guys and deny that fact), Machar pledged to us that he will remove Garang from all the south but he failed that’s why we didn’t promote the agreement that he signed with us in Khartoum in 1997 because he failed to do his part!

Jalaby,
You are naive by calling it a failure. Dr. Machar frustrated your war strategically. Yes he took weapons from Khartoum but did not fight Khartoum’s war as you wanted. He did it purposely and left you like fools. He took your weapons but did not fight your war to your evil satisfaction. Then finally he is now the VP of an independennt South Sudan. Interesting!

We hired Machar to finish Granag’s movement and we gave weapons accordingly, surprisingly, instead of finishing Garang’s movement he finished Dinka Bor!!!
Machar was a bad agent that’s why we ignored him at last and let him go to Garang’s movement again after he showed them false regret and cried with crocodile tears!

Jalaby,
That is a good comforting explanation on your part after you were fooled by Dr. Machar; led you to commit on self determination, and used Garang to sign it with you; then he came again to implement it with you as head of SPLM team and finally led the referendum oversight committee and got his independence in the process. Interesting to ignore such a genous! You are in shock, I can see..

Mi diit:
You do realize that your fanciful little tirades elicit nothing but laughter by way of pity!? How many times must I refute and debunk your perennial and absurd claim that Riek Machar was somehow the champion of Self-Determination!?

I don’t quite know just how many times I must reiterate the fact that on the 29th of July [one month prior to the Nasir Declaration], the SPLM/A had informed the Sudanese government that Self-Determination was to be discussed for the Abuja agenda. These are historical facts that cannot be weakened or obviated by anyone, especially not by intellectually challenged saps such as yourself.

This is confirmed by the works of scholars such as Ann Lech. Her book states on page 22: "the independence option was therefore included in the still-united SPLM’s proposal for the Abuja agenda that was submitted to Nigerian and Sudanese government on 29th July 1991".
Page 22 - ’The Battle for Peace in Sudan: An Analysis of Abuja Conferences 1992 – 1993’.

Your laughable claim that Riek Machar somehow tricked Khartoum into accepting Self-Determination is contradicted by the documented facts. Machar was entirely dependent on the government for ammunition and supplies. Do you really think that Riek, being so dependant on the Khartoum government at that time... that he could extract such politically exacting concessions!?

The man did not deliver Self-Determination to the people of South Sudan; he delivered internecine tribal war and our oilfields to Khartoum — that’s his legacy. The legacy that allowed Khartoum to arm itself like never before with sophisticated and devastating weapons to the tune of billions of dollars and to the attendant lost and misery of millions of lives.

You don’t like the truth and prefer to make up reasons for believing in nonsense, so you continuously pretend not to understand a word I say. Riek was an incompetent, a hypocrite, an un-convincing liar, a capricious figure prone to collaborating with the enemy, unscrupolous and a TRAITOR. You’re just spinning in circles after yourself, as neurotic retards and diseased animals are prone to.

Riek laughably dismissed Dr. Lam Akol from their pseudo ’movement’ for get this... collaborating with the government. Reacting against his dismissal, Dr. Akol issued and circulated a document in which he demonstrated that he was not alone in cooperation with the enemy. In the document, Dr. Akol was very euphemistic when he remarked:

"Who could be more royal in the king’s court than the King himself!". A clear reference to the fact that Riek, as the chairman of Nasir was fully aware of their ’movement’s collaboration with the government and in fact directed these operations. There was NO crime too great for Riek to commit, no deception too base for him to practice, no disguise too difficult for him to assume.

It’s amazing to witness the human mind in the process of confusing itself via self-inflicted misdirection, convolution and irrationality. Do you just sit there -alone- pondering on what you wished had happened? What you wish you could attribute to Riek Machar, like some pagan observant, offering gifts to his divine, infallible and omnipotent god!?

You are driven not by a desire for truth, but rather by ethnocentric paranoia, which forbids you from admitting what you know to be true whilst espousing falsehoods, which you know to be not true. This is perhaps the reason why you constantly alter your claims like a chameleon to any given environment.

Romel(Luka Biong)
Your false History of Hates has no base and no documentary facts! This is a common practice in your culture that you can never accept what is done by another than to oppose it running in the dark and declare that I did it! It is like I make an experiment on How to Inhibit the Growth of Bacteria in Soiless Media.Then you steal my already made research topic with all its contents.

What will happen to you if the Scientific Communities discover your falsehood!? Of course you be banned and not even dishonoured! Don’t preach what is widely known in the world despite the fact that you are using terminologies.What matters is the fact not your useless terminologies.Riek is a Scientist,Economist and will shine whether you like him or not!

Ruach:
Ah, so even though I provide copious amounts of citations, documents and references, my claims are somehow not supported by the documented facts!? Hmm, interesting. Your little rant regarding the scientific process and intellectually integrity and honesty is not in alignment with who you are. Shouldn’t you be interpreting Ngundeng’s ’prophetic’ songs!? That’s your level of intellect.

Rommel (Luka Biong Deng),
You are an intellectual prostitute. Get back Abyei first which your grandfather sold to the Arabs you now pretend to hate before talking of South Sudan. Now you talk of SPLM/A tabling self determination in July 1991, when Riek joined the movement in 1984, and that is when he had been convincing Garang to table self determination during the seven years as colleagues.

The fact that your so-called historians who partially wrote books about the issues of the movement did not ask Riek Machar about what transpired in the movement does not mean that Riek was not behind the tabling of self determination. Ask Riek next time before writing another book to tell you his part of the story. Riek almost convinced Garang to accept self determination much earlier than 1991.

Mi diit:
It’s absolutely fascinating to me that you continuously refuse my request for evidence no matter how many times I ask of you or quite simply tell you to provide the essential evidence for your specious little claim that Riek apparently tried so very hard to convince the late Dr. John Garang De Mabior of the merits of Self-Determination prior to 1991.

This has been an unanswered request.... Evidently you have nothing to say, on the subject that you started. I want a name of a credible historian who can affirm your position. I do not want another blob-of-spam-distractions, filled with self-aggrandizing pseudo-history. Your lack of citations or evidence in the context of your desperate attempt to distort the historical narrative is a joke.

You better stop spinning and find some documents, fast! I have a feeling you won’t be forthcoming in this regard. Two things can happen: 1) You will answer my request for evidence, and if you’re forthcoming, I will thank you for enlightening me. 2) You will not answer my request, in which case the debate is over, and you’ve lost.

Now, please provide excerpts from this elusive discussion between the late Dr. John Garang De Mabior and Riek Machar, which supposedly took place. Not to deprive you of your natural right to certain failure — but you have a snowball’s chance in Hades of proving that Riek said anything to the late Dr. John Garang De Mabior concerning Self-Determination in 1984. Evidence is required.

You posit many claims [all ridiculous] and yet you NEVER provide EVIDENCE for any of them. This is one of the ongoing and crippling flaws in all of your feign thesis... your inability to objectively distinguish fantasy from reality and evidence from wishful thinking. I have explained this to you over and over again yet you continue this tirade of silliness.

I will never stop what has been centrifuged in your mind causing lot of sicknesses! It is up to you whether you believe in scientific evidents which are out of your mind that u can never trials!Your position is to deceive people with ur fake doctorate Dr Biong!I feeled all educational an achievement that can be injected/innoculated if possible!

J. this Machar is the same now u keep begging him - GOSS- to let his oil flow through our country & bail u out with the3.8 bn & to fight SPLA-N for u to save our failing state,however, everybody in the NCP doesn’t wanna talked about this - embarrassing- cuz they know very well they’d been fooled by Machar & his compatriots,it was adark page in ur history bro....but u have a funny way of thinking .

Mohamed Mohgoub,
Thanks for letting Jalaby understand the situation he didn’t grasp at the time when Machar was playing his cards strategically very well. He should accept the fact that the outcome of the whole game has finally favoured Dr. Machar and they got fooled. I thank them though for the episode.

anyway Jalaby or son of terrorist please now you can have the real name of this stupid guy so called Dinka Dominated SPLA/M the animal is call Mangoor by Dinka name which an African name even if you being interesting to talk to him I am ready to provide you with his email ID because he is another useless like you but he is not a son of terrorist this can you different,

Oh! Guys.What has posses Mr DinkaDomimatedSpla? I failed to compeherend with,Jalaba is just capitalising on such a political nude boy. Khartuom is so desperates to have oilflow again i wish i’d be one holding dat tape.

Mitoot me "Son of your grandfather" what a crap? We would all be doom if we are all Nuer or have some relation with Nuer blood otherwise I’m not from your uncivilized uneducated savages community of food loving, nyagateen, those Dinka you mention never stabbed us at the back and they didn’t have militias like your food lover gang of Riek and they are far better than Riek or all nyagats,

Mitoot me "Son of your grandfather" what a crap? We would all be doom if we are all Nuer or have some relation with Nuer blood otherwise I’m not from your uncivilized uneducated savages community of food loving, nyagateen, those Dinka you mention never stabbed us at the back and they didn’t have militias like your food lover gang of Riek and they are far better than Riek or all nyagats,

Mitoot me "Son of your grandfather" what a crap? We would all be doom if we are all Nuer or have some relation with Nuer blood otherwise I’m not from your uncivilized uneducated savages community of food loving, nyagateen, those Dinka you mention never stabbed us at the back and they didn’t have militias like your food lover gang of Riek and they are far better than Riek or all nyagats,

Dinka Dominated Shit,
You would have been a brave and respectful son if you did not run away from my grandfather who owned your father. Abel, Kongor or Moses Machar gave information to Khartoum which resulted to the death of millions including some great leaders you once loved in South Sudan. Having a militia force is better than giving dangerous information which can crush your leader...

Black Arabs always like to lie a lots? Look at the really Arabs crying in the Middle East and prov that Arab are stupid and ignorence that why there are too many problems facing the countries unlike other nations.

Sudan Tribune forum is not fair to the fact that giving there employees to writes with freedom while removing other users posts.
Jalaby is an agent to the Sudanese Government working with Sudan Tribune with a full accees to writes with color as the sign of gays, why the forum could not allowed any users to use the same thing?
Is Jalaby especial? Or that is just bais from the ST?
Be proud of GAY P

Jalaby,
If we are lairs, so what about you guys? Ok assuming we are liars but you guys are GAYS including your GAY President who don’t care about the Sudanese people because he have no children and that is the Fake Arabs culture including prophet muhammad as the BIGGEST LIAR ever in the mankind history that why Muslim did not want the truth to reveal about their fake believed. 160 died in Gaza LOL

Mi diit
blah blah blah khartoum khartoum khartoum blah blah blah, let us make it clear, as long as you support rebels your economy and starvation will continue to go worse. in other words, if you support rebels then there is no deal.

N. Sudanese, the oil is here in South Sudan with us; if we need cash, we can use convoys of oil tankers to transport our oil through Ethiopia or Kenya to the India Ocean. Don’t worry about us in South Sudan; just worry about yourselves in Sudan.

Northsudanese
you are like the palestinians who are celebrating ceasefire as a win when israel clearly kicked their asses. our economy will fail because yours is staggering though lies are told about foreign investments. sugar, meat and gas prices soar and weakening your money. south sudan has neighbors to trade with LOL.

I’m holding two possition, in the military and politics, someone can go to hell with his/ here jealousy,
I fought and I’m doing my work to make sure that some people are treat very well no matter what the little contribution they made during the war, oil is ours and we can decided what to do with it, and we will never abendond our colleague who fought with us during the war,

Ruach
Just reason like human being, don’t called people son of bitches, even you are not a son of that word you said it, grow up, might be you are just young kid who do not have a respect for a mother women, say something but do not called women bitch God will punish you for that, I don’t called ledies with such wicked names, have you ever read me saying this wards? ,no

Lol,how many doses of cocaine did you take? You don’t know as your cocaine is teaching and leading you to hell! You are not a patriot but a street kid! I was a school kid not a street kid like who mind has ended up in tribal hates! American Monkey!

To you Dinka piece of shit,
Why don’t you use your real name if you are real human with sense of dignity.What did Nuer done to you?Did they fuck your mom during the war or what?Look son of bitch,Nuer are not going no where in South Sudan.If you stil calling your brothers and sisters nyagateen while they fought with you during last 22 years that mean you are on the darkside of the politics.

Look ass hole,your days are limited we will TRACK your Computer IP and you’ll learn the lesson of what you are trying to preach on the web.In fact,I don’t think the whole Dinka people will support you stupit mind when the time arrive.Anyways,wait until 2015 you will see what gone happen if your Dinka tribe are the only men in the Republic of South Sudan.But fear not.

Guys Jallaby is arguing out of frastration don’nt bother with him, you can see how desperate khartoum is, now they are trying to contact Juba so that they can bring back the hope of Sudanese mass which i beleive was back after the Agreement of ADDIS want to draw the attention of people away from reality, now they creat ilussion that there was acoup but this is not real;
thanks

Jallaby, am always so kins in seeing some people bear no shames of discussing ideas of useless meaning listen careful, better go to school again and study harder cos am fed up with all the repeatation of the same words days by pass and still posting the same, to act like other intellectual there are scenarious under which essics apply and those u don’t have just spastic.

I know ,but why he is doing that ,why hiding his true identity unless u r living in khartoum but in the free world ! cyber space ,may be he got hired by somebody to do so ,if that is the case I don’t blame him ,but faking &twisting historical facts is unforgivable crime against humanity

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